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Love Song for The Demon – for Prompt 43 Supernatural Lust

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Helen

Sing me your songs of sheer electricity Set ablaze my synapses And scorch earth right through of me Tenderness lacking, the soul in full flight Can feel no emotion Just need in the night My eyes shatter light in an … Continue reading →

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A Triptyche of Pain: Three interlinked poems

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Helen

Pain Slake the thirst of bitter pain Each tear a droplet unbidden From a depthless, vast sea Red as blood I’m stained All the secrets I’d keep hidden Part like lost friends from me No choice, just wail and cry … Continue reading →

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Feast

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Helen

This ravenous hunger Will not be satiated These elegant hosts Not here ingratiated A perfect feast Is kept at arm’s length To bridge this distance There is no strength The fatted cow lies In glorious display This perfect savagery Here … Continue reading →

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Lost Highway

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Helen

A scratched message on a dirty mirror In this rest room of this station Spoke of coldness, spoke of mystery And some deeper, dark elation ‘Come and join me’ it has whispered ‘Come and see me, come and play’ But … Continue reading →

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Waiting – for Prompt 41 Consuming Impatience

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Helen

My skin cracks and splits Beneath this weight of hours Emotions parched This desert life has gripped me Yet still has ill-equipped me For its slow and steady Portentous demands There was that moment on the stair Your hushed voice … Continue reading →

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Name

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Helen

I name you darkness I name you death I name you whispers On dying breath I name you coldness I name you vice I named you once and I won’t name twice I call your name now I call you … Continue reading →

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Loved

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Helen

I loved you once To power fell A brittle neck A deeper hell I loved you twice I made my claim I changed my life I changed my name I loved you thrice You turned away You said I lied … Continue reading →

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Hope Dies for Prompt 39 Unwanted Truth

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Helen

My truth is the one where hope dies It shivers on the barricades It is verdant in the Everglades But when the jury must be swayed Just silence and a nothingness replies My truth is the one deep known The … Continue reading →

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Mood Indigo

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Helen

Navy black depression Too many coffees consumed This desperate day Awaking desolate Without rhyme or reason In doubt and dismay Mood indigo Crosses your brittle thoughts Like a lost memory All of these colours Just fading away Just the light … Continue reading →

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Nothingness

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Helen

Footsteps in an empty room Afternoon shadowplay Well before noon Ghostly images Flickering on the stair Feeling of presence When nothing is there Lights shining dimly When switches are off Lost faces like images On virgin cloth Banging of doorways … Continue reading →

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